Barbara Smith

Acting for Majors and Non-Majors

barbara.smith@utah.edu

Barbara received both her B.F.A. and M.F.A. degree in Theatre at the University of Utah. She currently teaches in the Department of Theatre and serves as ArtsBridge Director. Her directing credits include The Hollow, Bus Stop, Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Picnic, and Antigone for the Classical Greek Theatre Festival. She has also directed her adaptations of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, and Julius Caesar. As an actress, she has performed numerous roles not only for the Department of Theatre but also at other venues locally and regionally. She has performed in The Bakkhai, Trojan Women, Iphegenia at Aulis, The Cherry Orchard, The Night of the Iguana, Equus, A Lie of the Mind, Anna Christie, The Crucible, A Moon for the Misbegotten, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. She is the 2001 recipient of the Kenneth H. Washington Scholarship.